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Hey y’all! Happy post-Halloween everyone and welcome to the only space I’m provided with to talk about Final Fantasy games and more! Before I continue with the third installment in the series, let’s take a look at something else first. Squeenix was holding a Final Fantasy Super Fan contest. Fans of the series had the chance to prove they are the most determined of their kind by making a video about why they should receive the title and the grand prize of having your name listed in the credit roll of the next Final Fantasy game. Wow! Too bad I misunderstood the purpose and lost by default. I thought we were supposed to decorate a fan with Final Fantasy stuff to make it a ‘super fan’ and film it for a minute or less… Whoooooooops…? Well, you can’t spell Fantasy without ‘fan’, right? Heh, I’m so witty today.

Well, no, of course I didn’t. I wouldn’t be the right person for this title. In fact, I think no one would. In the eyes of Square Enix, the greatest fan is the one with the biggest collection of merchandise and costumes, the person that shove them the most money into their throats, while in my own eyes, it’s the person who spent a lot of time with the series, knows every game inside and outside and loves each installment equally. Let’s be honest: no such a person exists in this dimension. And if a person like that does exist, I envy him he or she probably didn’t even know about this contest in time.

So that’s that! Now let’s take a look at Final Fantasy III. And no, it’s not Final Fantasy VI, you silly old generation people. Here at the Moore Log, we do the counting the japanese way. Well, technically it’s roman numerals BUT I DON’T CARE!!!

So Final Fantasy III is a game. Yup. Definitely a game. I’m not so sure of it sometimes, but yes, according to the Wiki, it is. It’s also very similar to the first Final Fantasy game called Final Fantasy, as it doesn’t have pre-named main characters like Final Fantasy II did. That is, until the DS remake came up.

Finally doing another one of these. When did I say do I want to finish this series? December? We’ll see about that!

So, last time, I was talking about the original Final Fantasy game and even how I got introduced into the whole RPG business. Today, we can just skip all of this and lay the focus on just the game. What do we have? What does the title say?

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Oh, no… please, I don’t even…

I said no!Damn it… You see, back in the NES era, game developers had the habit to make sequels very different from the successful originals that even made the sequels possible, like Zelda II: The Adventure of Link – Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest – Waldo II: The Great Waldo Search – and of course Final Fantasy II: Not So Final Anymore, eh?! They were probably under the impression people don’t want to play the same game twice. Well good thing they learned from that mistake because now we have good games like Super Mario Warfare 3: Ultimate Edition now with additional DLC you can buy right when the game comes out!!! Who needs difference?!?!

Before going past this point, read this post to understand what I’m doing here why. Basically I’m just a fanperson, writing the memories of his favorite game series down, while trying not to spaz out too much from all this.

Ah, the very first Final Fantasy title, simply called Final Fantasy. As you can see, I’m going to talk about these games in the order they were released, not the order I played them in. In fact, this was the last Final Fantasy I finished (not counting XIII-2), so that’s a bit of an irony there. A kind warning: In the next few paragraphs I’m just going to talk about how I even got to play this game, so if you want to skip that and read about the game, just scroll down past the picture. Pictures will always serve as some sort of milestone in these posts.

Hey y’all Space Monkies! (If you get this reference, it means you actually had to use a -helpful- walkthrough for a Final Fantasy game during the last decade and went to the Final Fantasy wiki to get it. So… congratulations on that.)

–[Legal note:This user is in no way affiliated to BlueHighwind or any of his work. He doesn’t even like that guy.]

Soooo, now that I have this silly business of putting an obscure reference into this post behind me, let’s return to the topic. The 25th Anniversary of the Final Fantasy franchise is drawing near! As… as the title suggests, just in case you didn’t notice. And of course, a celebration takes place… in Tokyo. This weekend. Which is why I won’t be there. That, and I probably have no internal contacts to bring me in either. Maybe I can sneak in… Yeeeeeaaaah…